Pleasure Map

[Tom Stanton]

jporter wrote:
> The neuronal circuit involved in addiction- alcohol, coke, heroin, the 
> pleasure is all yours-  the same structures and the same interconnections
> forming the same pleasure circuit is involved in mediating the addictive 
> effects all of these. [snip]  Satiety became centralized, and handled by a 
> separate circuit, i.e., the beginnings of a neuronal bureaucracy in charge 
> of consciousness.

Consciousness as a neural wiring harness? Hmm. It might suggest "will"
is nothing
more than a biological imparative being actualized by some hapless sack
of cells
unaware they are the experiment. I like it.
 
> And you know those bureaucrats, for the right price...

Hate to leap to anthropomophising (sp?!) biology. We might find the
quarks
are behind all this and plan to take over the whole fucking mess.

Yrs,
Tom